Hey, MF'er where's my tip?

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My wife and I attended an International equine event in Maryland this past week/weekend. The booths that sold drinks had a note on the machines that took credit cards saying there was a 15 percent gratuity added to bill . Basically a forced tip. Total bs considering what drinks cost and you can't bring in your own booze. The tipping thing is out of control, everyone wanting a tip.
 
This is the problem with being nice to folks.
You tip them a few times when they give you excellent service or because you feel charitable and next thing you know they demand it as a "right" and start attacking you when you don't give them a "free gift".

That being said it's also a problem because a lot of greedy restaurants and such places get away with paying their staff next to nothing (not even anywhere close to the minimum wage) and then expect the staff to essentially "guilt" and "pressure" the customers into paying their salaries in "tips".

I think as times get worse and greedflation starts really grinding the gears of the lower end of the working folks, there is going to start being a huge backlash against tipping and all this B.S.
 
In Athens, Greece they had tip jars on the retail store counters. Fucking pathetic.
I could almost see this if someone was personally walking around helping you pick shit out and holding it for you while you try it on. Boutique bs, but no, these were just kids ringing up your clothes 🤣
 
We were invited out to dinner aa few years back. It was a Chinese buffet restaurant. The gook waitress brought refills maybe once and that was after asking for them. Nobody left a tip. She actually followed our party of 3 out into the parking lot asking where her tip was.
 
Fuck that. Have a family member who makes $400-$600 a shift in tips. I'll tip at a few small shops, but its out of hand

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My mother was a waitress after my parents divorced. My older sisters would count tip money to see if the electric bill could be paid.

She was the first to tell you that tips aren't entitlements, they were for good service. I watched her a few times dress down sucky waiters for sucky service and tell them exactly why they weren't getting a tip.
 
I’m not fucking tipping for take out, you handed me a bag 😆
I mean the kitchen staff preparing the food worked just as hard as for dine in, but that said I think tipping in general is fucking stupid. The doctor who studied for seven years and reverses some disease doesn't get a tip but someone asking "how is everything?" basically is guaranteed to have some cash thrown at them for it?

Mandatory gratuities are also some bullshit. That's the price, that's not a tip. Paying staff and giving them raises for job performance shouldn't be a customer's responsibility.
 
I mean the kitchen staff preparing the food worked just as hard as for dine in, but that said I think tipping in general is fucking stupid. The doctor who studied for seven years and reverses some disease doesn't get a tip but someone asking "how is everything?" basically is guaranteed to have some cash thrown at them for it?

Mandatory gratuities are also some bullshit. That's the price, that's not a tip. Paying staff and giving them raises for job performance shouldn't be a customer's responsibility.
Kitchen staff normally don’t get any of the tips
 
There are restaurants here that add 15% to your bill for their staffs health insurance. Fuck that! You want to give them health coverage, Good for you. But add it to the price of every menu item and post large signage telling customers of the 15% tax for your employees health insurance!
I will decide whether to dine at your establishment and pay that extra cost. It shouldn't be a surprise on the bill! Oh, Yes they still expect a tip!

I once had a shitty bartender at a Minneapolis bar called the 7Th street entry, which was part of 1st Avenue bar. 7th street entry Bar was really dead and the chick bartender was slow as fuck to serve us. Now normally we tipped. But, we waited 10 minutes for her to take our 1st round order. She literally stood at far end of the bar and ignored us. We didn't tip her for our tap beers. I go back up to the bar to get another drink. She does the same slow shit. She finally walks over to me. 1st thing out of her mouth is, customers normally tip. I Reply with. You want a tip? She says yes!
I said, here is your tip, Don't stare directly into the sun! She stared at me for 15 seconds. Then says, Your cut off. I'm not serving you!
I laughed and said no problem. Went out in to the main bar in 1st avenue and got my drinks from there for the rest of the night.
The 7th street entry was great for music. You would see 5 or more bands a night. You never knew what would be on stage. From punk to country and everything in between!
 
I've gone to a couple restaurants and the waiter asked me if I scanned the QR code when I asked if they had a certain beer. One said that there's a list of the appetizers and desserts on it also. WTF do I need you for then? Just set up a kiosk and this place would just be like McDonald's. She started rambling off the beers they had. I asked again about the beer I wanted and she said that they do have it. Okay, write that down and bring me one.
 
Yet, this is where it all started, the tip was for the cook, and no one else. However, like all things, morphed towards the unintended.
Nope, tips have always been for the front of house staff the whole point is they want us to pay the bulk of their salary so they save money. Everyone pretends it makes service better but it’s always been a way for you to pay the bulk instead of the restaurant
 
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Hey I was a bus boy. If you wanted your tables cleared quickly so a new guest was seated, you shared some of your tip money. If not, you bus your own tables. Some would say it was extortion, I called it a business model.
 
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Hey I was a bus boy. If you wanted your tables cleared quickly so a new guest was seated, you shared some of your tip money. If not, you bus your own tables. Some would say it was extortion, I called it a business model.
That’s a pretty normal practice you weren’t a financial genius 😆
 
Nope, tips have always been for the front of house staff the whole point is they want us to pay the bulk of their salary so they save money.
Great Great grand & grand parents all owned eateries clear back to the mid 1800's. They all said the first tips were for the Cook only. This was all over In, Il, Ky & Mi.
 
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Great Great grand & grand parents all owned eateries clear back to the mid 1800's. They all said the first tips were for the Cook only. This was all over In, Il, Ky & Mi.
Well one person told you a story so that’s an across the board fact. My 6th great grandfather just called me and said you’re wrong.

Tipping in restaurants is something we pretty well know the history of it isn’t some mystery
 
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Well one person told you a story so that’s an across the board fact. My 6th great grandfather just called me and said you’re wrong.

Tipping in restaurants is something we pretty well know the history of it isn’t some mystery
I always ask what the other 3 great grandfather's said, then the 4 on mama's side said, then all 8 great grandma's. Especially when they say one of them is from -----.